A lot of cryptocurrency enthusiasts are looking forward to seeing how all of the major cryptocurrencies will scale. Ethereum is of special interest, and it seems its developers are looking to introduce both Casper and sharding in the same major upgrade. That would certainly get a lot of people excited, for rather obvious reasons.

The Future of Ethereum Scaling

As with most other cryptocurrencies on the market today, it is evident there need to be proper scaling solutions for Ethereum. Although this network currently processes around 1 million transactions per day, it seems things are progressing nicely. Even so, there are a lot of changes on the horizon, by the look of things, which can only be considered a good thing. Read more...

Microsoft’s acquisition of open source code repository Github has provoked protest from members of the crypto community. Developers of bitcoin core and other blockchains have expressed disquiet at the corporate takeover, with several stating their intent to migrate to an alternative platform at the earliest possible convenience.

Ethereum’s Github has recently seen several significant proposals made for development. On April 1st, Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, proposed the introduction of a hard fork on the supply of ETH tokens at approximately 120 million. Several days prior, developer Piper Merriam advocated that Ethereum conduct a hard fork in order to “demonstrate a willingness” to resist “ASIC-based Ethereum mining.”

Vitalik Buterin Proposes Hard Cap on ETH Supply

Ethereum’s co-founder has published an Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) suggesting the introduction of a hard cap on the total supply of ETH at 120,204,432 – “exactly [twice] the amount of ETH sold in the original sale.” Read more...

Today, March 15, Lightning Labsannounced lnd 0.4-beta, the first beta release of the Lightning software implementation spearheaded by the development company. This makes lnd the first ever Lightning implementation to be marked as beta, meaning that the development team deems it to be feature complete and safe enough for use on Bitcoin’s mainnet — though the software could still contain bugs. In conjunction, Lightning Labs has also announced a $ 2.5 million seed investment round, which will fund further development of lnd.Read more...

FundRequest, a decentralized marketplace built for open source collaboration, has announced a partnership with Indorse, a reward-based decentralized professional social network where users can control their data, to match talented and certified open source developers with available projects, bounties and jobs.

FundRequest is a decentralized marketplace that provides a unique protocol for funding open source development and collaboration. It allows anybody to fund projects across the entire open source space, accelerating growth and at the same time providing a democratic system that allows development to reflect what users really want. FundRequest ensures that contributors to open source development are financially rewarded for their work and their partnership with Indorse will bring even greater benefits.Read more...

Uzbekistan has taken the road to bitcoin legalization. In accordance with a presidential decree, a law regulating “electronic money” should be prepared by the end of the summer. The Central Asian country is also planning to open a center for distributed ledger technologies. Mining expenses in Uzbekistan are among the lowest in the world, as the country is a leading producer of electricity.

ALAX’s token-based technology will provide access to tens of millions of ‘unbanked’ customers worldwide. ALAX TGE set to commence on April 17th, 2018, with the platform scheduled to be available immediately following its conclusion.

Hong Kong, February 22nd, 2018 – ALAX, a new venture between blockchain technology company DECENT and games distribution platform Dragonfly, has today released a white paper outlining further details of its token structure and confirming that it’s TGE will commence on April 17th, 2018.

A number of intended partnerships are set to be announced in the coming days, which will see the platform preinstalled on millions of smartphones, particularly in the fast-growing South-East Asian and South Asian mobile markets. Read more...

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Blockchain-driven social platform Matchpool and QTUM have teamed up to announce The QTUM Dev Challenge. The challenge is aimed at building a QTUM-based application for the platform and expanding Matchpool’s presence in Asian regions.

The QTUM Dev Challenge is looking for enthusiastic blockchain developers who are up to the challenge of building and submitting an MVP of the Matchpool social app for Asian community based on QTUM platform and using $ QGUP token as its currency. The contest will begin on January 8, 2018, and last until February 15, 2018.

**On Today’s Episode Of The Cryptoverse:**
In today’s news segment I bring you a chat I had on Tuesday with Josh Scigala, CEO of Vaultoro, the one of a kind online exchange that I recommend on the show regularly. Vaultoro allows you to trade back and forth between gold and Bitcoin.
I asked Josh about recent events in the crypto world as well as the challenges of finding good developers as he grows his business.
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**On today’s episode of The Cryptoverse:**
– I list a few movers and shakers in the crypto markets
– I show the Bitcoin price chart at an all time high
– Bitcoin Core move beyond Segwit to Schnorr signatures
– UK government to ban fees on credit and debit card transactions
– Dash move further into retail sector
– The Ethereum hardfork is detailed on their official blog
– Bitcoin Gold respond to criticism, although ineffectively IMO
– I have 2 free tickets to CryptoFinance 2017

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